Iranian presidential election, 1980

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25 January 1980 1981 → 75.6% 15.71%		10,709,330 2,224,554

The First Iranian presidential election was held on 25 January 1980. It was held one year after the Iranian Revolution when the Council of Islamic Revolution was in power. The number of the eligible voters in the country was 20,993,643. However, the number of the actual voter was 14,152,887, leading to the voter turnout of 67.4%.

Candidates

The number of the candidates registered to run for the presidency was 124, but only 96 of them were allowed to run. There were only 8 candidates with ballot access and the rest of candidates were write-in.

Candidates with ballot access

Party nominees

Hassan Habibi (Islamic Republican Party)

Dariush Forouhar (Nation Party)

Kazem Sami (JAMA)

Non-partisan candidates

Abolhassan Banisadr

Ahmad Madani (National Front member)

Sadeq Tabatabaei (Freedom Movement member)

Sadegh Ghotbzadeh (Freedom Movement member)

Mohammad Mokri (National Front member)

Withdrew

Hassan Ayat (Independent; Islamic Republican Party member), endorsed Jalaleddin Farsi

Jalaleddin Farsi (Islamic Republican Party nominee), ineligible to run for the office due to his Afghan origin

Sadegh Khalkhali (Independent), endorsed Abolhassan Banisadr

Massoud Rajavi (People's Mujahedin of Iran nominee), forced to withdraw for opposing the Islamic Republic constitution

Declined to run

Ruhollah Khomeini

Mohammad Beheshti

Mehdi Bazargan

Election results

Abolhassan Banisadr was elected as president.

References

Iranian presidential election, 1980 Wikipedia

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